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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Economic Life and Industries.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Kenyatta recognize which is all important?
(a) The danger of fame and fortune.
(b) The danger of his own bias.
(c) His love of the European culture.
(d) His lack of education.

2. What were the Gikuyus made to know by the Europeans?
(a) Africa has no future.
(b) Might is right.
(c) They should pattern themselves after the Europeans.
(d) The black man is inferior.

3. What is the mother's brother called?
(a) Unka.
(b) Loopi.
(c) Oono.
(d) Mama.

4. What is the mbari or nyomba?
(a) Hut of a female Gikuyu.
(b) Hut of a male Gikuyu.
(c) Witch doctor.
(d) Family group.

5. What is a moherega?
(a) Gikuyu clan.
(b) Hunter.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Gikuyu of the warrior class.

Short Answer Questions

1. The educated, intellectual minority of Africans were dismissed as ___________.

2. What does a Gikuyu woman call the parcel of land she is allowed to cultivate?

3. To whom does Kenyatta write that he is indebted to concerning technical advice on anthropological points?

4. From what month to what month is the season of the big rain In Gikuyuland?

5. A man who owns a hut is referred to as __________.

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